The Smallest Tadpole's War in the Land of Mysterious Waters

The Smallest Tadpole's War in the Land of Mysterious Waters
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Publisher : Smallest Tadpole
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 0692509747
ISBN-13 : 9780692509746
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Smallest Tadpole's War in the Land of Mysterious Waters by : Diane Swearingen

In the 1860's a Northern newspaper referred to Florida as the "smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of secession." Political power in the state was held largely by wealthy white planters. In early 1861, Florida was a rural frontier state that had joined the Union just fifteen years before. Its population of 140,000 was by far the smallest of any of the states that formed the Confederacy. Nearly 63,000 of the population were African Americans, most of whom were slaves working in an agricultural-based economy. The majority of the white population was relatively poor and rural, with a smaller number of tradespeople and their families living in small towns. This work of historical fiction tells the story of one Florida family in the 1860s.

Illustrated London News

Illustrated London News
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Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : CHI:78274165
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Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

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The Country Gentleman

The Country Gentleman
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1038
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015043511511
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

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QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins

QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
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Total Pages : 772
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ISBN-10 : PSU:000043875498
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins by : Robert Hendrickson

A tracing of the sometimes bizarre and always fascinating origins and development of over 9000 words and phrases.

Reflections of the Brazos Valley

Reflections of the Brazos Valley
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages : 102
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ISBN-10 : 9781585446155
ISBN-13 : 1585446157
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis Reflections of the Brazos Valley by : D. Gentry Steele

Many years ago, John Graves said goodbye to a wild river that tumbled out of the Hill Country and was forever changed by dams and people. In this book we say hello to that same river farther down its course, in the valley that carries its name. When naming the signature landscapes of Texas, if you have never said “Brazos Valley” in the same breath as “Hill Country” or “Big Bend,” this book could change your mind. In the fine, penetrating photography of D. Gentry Steele and the revealing, affectionate reflections of M. Jimmie Killingsworth, the Brazos Valley has found its champions in two adopted sons who have learned to love its quiet, uncelebrated beauty. In words and pictures, Killingsworth and Steele remind us that this valley was the birthplace of a republic, was once the agricultural heart of Texas, and was the ancestral home of a great alluvial river. Here, the Brazos is—and isn’t—John Graves’s river, the one with clear-running waters flowing beneath limestone cliffs. A little south of Waco, the river gets bigger, slower, muddier. In its middle reaches it creates a wide swath of bottomlands and prairies where, if you take the time to look, you will discover the natural virtues of this place: peaceful glens, watered forests, flowers, birds, and backyard wildlife. This book will inspire all who live and work here—and those who just visit—to see the Brazos Valley anew and form a fuller appreciation of what it offers.

Precious Bones

Precious Bones
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Publisher : Yearling
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9780307930705
ISBN-13 : 030793070X
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Precious Bones by : Mika Ashley-Hollinger

Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see straight into Bones' soul. It's summer, and Bones is busy hunting and fishing with her best friend, Little Man. But then two Yankee real estate agents trespass on her family's land, and Nolay scares them off with his gun. When a storm blows in and Bones and Little Man uncover something horrible at the edge of the Loo-chee swamp, the evidence of foul play points to Nolay. The only person that can help Nolay is Sheriff LeRoy, who's as slow as pond water. Bones is determined to take matters into her own hands. If it takes a miracle, then a miracle is what she will deliver.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 599
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ISBN-10 : 9781466804272
ISBN-13 : 1466804270
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Sophie's World by : Jostein Gaarder

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 401
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ISBN-10 : 9780735219106
ISBN-13 : 0735219109
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Where the Crawdads Sing by : Delia Owens

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 18 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.